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By Sara Rajabova

A strong earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted suburbs of Borazjan, in Bushehr province, Iran media reported.

According to the Seismological center of Tehran University's Geophysics Institute, the quake hit the city at 17: 21 p.m. (local time) on November 28.

According to Bushehr Governor, the latest statistics on the dead and wounded victims of Borazjan earthquake were respectively 8 and 65.

Fereidoun Hassanvand told IRNA news agency that minutes after the strong quake a crisis management headquarter was established and rescue and relief teams, emergency services, and military and police forces were dispatched to the region.

He said the wounded people were transferred from the earthquake region to Bushehr and Gonaveh cities for proper medical treatment.

Hassanvand said the damaged cities in the earthquake include Borazjan, Abpakhsh and Sa'dabad, and the damaged villages are Kolal, Ziarat, Boneh Jaberi, Dehqayed, and Nazar Aqa.

He said full security is established in the region by the military and police forces with collaboration of the people

He added the water network in the Township of Dashtestan is fully repaired and the electrical network of Borazjan has been repaired 96 percent and the telephone lines and gas networks, too, are functioning in the entire region.

Intending to offer assistance to the officials in the region, Hassanvand said that the president, his first vice president, the interior minister and their deputies and vices directly supervised the matter and have been well informed about the process of assisting the victims.

The quakes epicenter was near Borazjan, around 60km from Bushehr, where Iran has its Russian-built nuclear reactor.

This strong earthquake was followed by twenty one aftershocks, the strongest one measured 3.8 on Richter scale.

Tremors have also been recorded in other southern cities of Iran but no damage has been reported.

Iran stands on several seismic fault lines. A massive quake in December 2003 struck the southern city of Bam, killing 26,000 people and destroying its ancient mud-built citadel.